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Originally Posted by fatmac
I wonder how many IT departments will now be thinking of installing Linux or BSD.
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Not many. Few even know it exists and the vast majority of businesses are still entirely windows dependent. You also have IT people who are tied into windows and windows support contracts and are not going to gamble their careers on a completely unknown quantity.
There is no point sitting in a boardroom giving technical explanations to a board of directors after something went badly wrong. If it's "just windows" and "everyone else" is affected and you took all the required steps, then you're considerably safer.
Running out of date windows will be the scapegoat and they will upgrade/patch and forget about it as they have done so many times before. People read the press and watch the TV and they believe the nonsensical dumbed down explanations of countless "experts" from the "virus industry" and "cyber security firms", who of course have no agenda whatsoever...
It's a known fact, outside of mainstream "public consumption", that IT systems security is in a shocking state and this has been the case for decades. They are caught between balancing trying to keep backdoors open for government agencies and trying to maintain some semblance of security for key infrastructure. Security is also marketed and sold as an "app" or add on - which is entirely flawed in itself. This multi-billion dollar parasite industry could not continue to exist if OS were actually secure by default.
